Marion BIGGS

(1823-1910)

BIGGS, Marion, a
Representative from California; born near Curryville, Pike County,
Mo., May 2, 1823; attended the common schools; moved to California
in 1850; returned to Missouri; was elected sheriff of Monroe
County, Mo., in 1852 and reelected in 1854; returned to California
in 1864; was a cattle buyer and was also engaged in agricultural
pursuits; elected to the State assembly from Sacramento County in
1867 and from Butte County in 1869; elected to the State
constitutional convention from the State at large in 1878; elected
as a Democrat to the Fiftieth and Fifty-first Congresses (March 4,
1887-March 3, 1891); was not a candidate for renomination in 1890
to the Fifty-second Congress; commissioner to attend the centennial
celebration of the inauguration of George Washington as President
of the United States, in 1889; resided in Gridley, Butte County,
Calif., and lived in retirement until his death there on August 2,
1910; interment in Helvetia Cemetery, Sacramento, Calif.

Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present